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Latest essay Freemasonry
The Word Granted
How we speak in lodge: the floor that is asked for and granted, the silence of the Entered Apprentice, speaking to the East, disagreeing without dividing, and the meaning of the three words with which we close every intervention.
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- Veiled in Allegory There are not two Freemasonries, one moral and one inward. A slow reading of the old definition, a peculiar system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols, to show that conduct and inner work are two moments of the same craft. 5 min read Read →
- The Two Doors The lodges of Saint John work between the two doors of the year. On the two Johns and the solstices, the prologue of the Gospel on the altar, the letter that kills and the spirit that gives life, and what it means to go up and to come back. 6 min read Read →
- Inside the Words The Hebrew is not in our temple as decoration or as genealogy, but as a way of transmitting: the text without vowels, the unpronounceable Name, the lost Word of the third degree, and the Tree that can be read in the stations of the East. 6 min read Read →
- That Is Called Masonry In the Middle Ages, masonry and geometry were the same word. A walk through what the Order inherited from Egypt and Greece: the conviction that some things can only be taught in figures, the letter G, the tetractys, the three pillars, and the geometry practised within. 6 min read Read →